Youth Issues News

Each weekday The NYA monitors the national press, government press releases, Hansard, parliamentary websites and specialist publications for news and information about young people and youth policy.

This intelligence feeds the work of the Policy, Information and Research team. National press scanned include the Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Times, Independent, Times Educational Supplement, and Voice. Comments and feedback welcome - email: Jo Poultney




Fewer children drink, smoke or take drugs
18 Jul 2008Recent figures published by the NHS Information centre suggest that rates of smoking, drinking and drug taking are decreasing amongst young people.
How sex education should be taught
18 Jul 2008Comment piece in The Guardian discussing sex education in schools and how it should be taught.
Apprentices need one face
18 Jul 2008A House of Lords report calls for a single minister to be responsible for apprenticeships.
Further £30million investment in the third sector to reduce youth crime
17 Jul 2008The DCSF has launched the second round of bidding for the Youth Sector Development Fund (YSDF) which will make a further £30million available to the third sector.
Dramatic fall in crime in England and Wales
17 Jul 2008The government has released findings from the latest British Crime Survey today which claim that crime is falling at a record rate.
Advertise condoms on TV before 9pm, say advisers
17 Jul 2008The Teenage Pregnancy Independent Advisory Group (TPIAG) has called for condom advertisements be to screened before the 9pm, watershed as part of a drive to reduce the number of teenage pregnancies.
When bad things happen
16 Jul 2008Case study of the Candle Project in south London which offers bereavement counselling and support to young people, particularly those whose families and friends have been victims of gun and knife crime.
New statistics on young people and crime
16 Jul 2008Headline figures from the 2006 Offending, Crime and Justice Survey into levels and trends in youth offending, anti-social behaviour and victimisation among young people has found that over three-quarters (78 per cent) of young people aged between 10 and 25 had not committed any of the core offences covered by the survey in the last 12 months.
Across the divide
16 Jul 2008Interview with Frances Done, Chair of the Youth Justice Board, on her plans to tackle guns, gangs and knife crime by working more closely in partnership with all agencies.
Youth Crime Action Plan published
16 Jul 2008The government has published its Youth Crime Action Plan which focuses on intensive prevention, tougher enforcement and more support for parents.



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